A Disorderly Retirement
I have missed travelling. I know, it’s not a human right, but then neither is sloe gin and I’d miss that too if it were banished from my life. I know that many people have satisfied their urge to travel by touring around their own countries and discovering great beauty on their doorstep, which is…
I have just read an article about the importance of fun, which, predictably, made me worry that there wasn’t enough fun in my life. So I read the article very closely to find out if I was getting my allotted quota and if not, how I should go about it. Luckily the journalist Catherine Price…
I’ve been thinking about roots this week. Not the literal sort (although I see that the weeds are starting to appear between the paving stones already), but the figurative sort. I blame Lyse Doucet, the Canadian journalist who works as Chief International Correspondent for the BBC and lives in London when she’s not reporting from…
A person can have too much excitement in life. As if the dancing Knickerbocker Glory and Liquorice Allsorts from Matthew Bourne’s Nutcracker weren’t enough, I then went to see Russell Brand performing his stand-up routine at the Hammersmith Apollo in London. I woke up the next morning in a state of bewilderment – what had…